Daily Archives: December 11, 2019
Towards the UNRWA mandate renewal: Involve the UNRWA Donor Nations
It is a foregone conclusion that the UN General Assembly will vote to renew the UNRWA mandate this Friday, December 13th, which will once again confine descendants of Arab refugees from the 1948 war to...
German Jewish beauty queen launches ‘Shalom’ campaign on social media
A German-Jewish beauty queen is launching a campaign to raise awareness about racist and anti-Semitic incidents and rhetoric afflicting Germany and Western Europe.
Tamar Morali kicked off her campaign, titled “SHALOM,” on Dec. 10, Human Rights Day.
She...
Shabbat-scheduled women’s marathon may dash Israeli’s run in 2020 Olympics
A marathon runner in Israel may have to put her Olympic dreams on hold after a women’s marathon in the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games has been moved from Sunday to Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath...
Jews and chocolate: 500 years of sweetness
Sephardic Jews who were expelled in the late 15th century from Portugal and Spain learned about cocoa and the production of chocolate from the indigenous peoples of Central and South America and the Caribbean. Keeping...
Stubborness of Lieberman, Netanyahu mires Israel
Avigdor Lieberman has been in politics for several decades. Earlier, he was close to Bibi, but later protested his less aggressive postures toward Palestinians. He came from a Zionist background in Kishinev, and in...
Religious issues surface in impeachment debate
Two stunning moments. The process of impeachment is inherently volatile, and in the past week it grew worse than imaginable: Religion was injected twice in a five-day period.
The roles of Catholicism and Judaism were...
Heated debate highlights partisan divide on combating anti-Semitism
With anti-Semitism in the United States on the uptick, including two deadly shootings in synagogues within six months of each other, multiple philanthropic initiatives have been launched to address the grave nature of the...
Thousands rally in Milan around Holocaust survivor following anti-Semitic threats
Thousands of people, including hundreds of mayors, escorted Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre through Milan on Tuesday evening after she had received hundreds of anti-Semitic threats, singing anti-fascist anthem “Bella Ciao” as they marched to City...
Report: Former Trump campaign aides in Israel to meet Netanyahu
Two of U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign aides are visiting Israel this week to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Jewish Insider reported on Tuesday.
The former aides, Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, are...
Is Hamas smuggling weapons into Gaza by sea?
After three rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Dec. 7, 2019, the Israeli military said in a statement that it had launched retaliatory airstrikes targeting military camps and a naval base belonging...